40 Days and 40 Nights: Critic Reviews

62%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

38%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

It has a way of wearing out what's supposed to be knockabout farce.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Dennis Lim Village Voice (Top Critic)

Squeamishly risque teen sexcom.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

You may feel like taking a vow of abstinence yourself -- at least from Hollywood youth-sex comedies.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

It won't take 40 days and 40 nights to forget this turkey.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

Nothing more than a lame vehicle for teen heartthrob Josh Hartnett.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Mildly amusing Josh Hartnett sex comedy.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Lehmann and screenwriter Rob Perez milk this idea for everything it's worth.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

25

This tedious romantic romp is based on a single, tiny idea--a hunk (Josh Hartnet) abstaining from sex for the duration of Lent--extended to the limits of a feature-length picture.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

17

Even by the relatively relaxed standards of teen sex, or no sex, farces, 40 Days and 40 Nights is painful to watch.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

75

They could have easily made yet another gross-out comedy, but instead the laughs are born of clever writing and likable characters.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Jeffrey Chen Window to the Movies

40

Finds a way to present a light-hearted sexual comic fairy tale, then derails itself with bad romantic comedy fallbacks.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

30

This movie was about the most excruciating hour and a half I've endured recently.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Grove Film Threat

30

This film would've been a lot funnier if the filmmaker's had shown the slightest bit of imagination in terms of the plot's comic possibilities.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Tim Merrill Film Threat

60

A reasonably intelligent adult comedy.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Blake French NutzWorld

70

It's a collection of guy humor, no more and no less.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Neil Smith BBC

60

In places 40 Days is actually quite witty but one can't help feeling that both Hartnett and Lehmann ... deserve better than this.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

25

Mean-spirited, ugly little movie.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

40

The movie reminded me of a beer commercial during a football game, with about as much depth but not nearly the wit.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

42

One half is a characteristic sex farce, the other a surprisingly genuine and amiable romance.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Paul Malcolm L.A. Weekly

Hartnett's pitch-perfect sexual panic can be hilariously funny.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal

88

A sex comedy starring Josh Hartnett is almost guaranteed a mainstream following. But that hasn't kept Lehmann from giving 40 Days the look and feel of a spirited, independent comedy.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Brent Simon Entertainment Today

42

A slight but enjoyable-in-the-moment cataloging of one guy's battle with libido... [that] never manages -- or, sadly, seems to aspire -- to anything more than breezy diversion.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Hartnett and Sossamon resonate a natural chemistry that infuses this mixed affair with uncommon humanism and sex appeal.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Denerstein Denver Rocky Mountain News

50

Given its drastically contrived nature, the script gets further than I expected.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Marshall Fine Journal News (Westchester, NY)

34

This is a movie that longs to be naughty, but never knows how to go far enough to truly surprise.
Full Review » 10 years ago